The Achilles Heel for Windows 8 on tablets is availability and time to market. By the time an ARM version hits retail, it could be Holiday Season 2012, at the earliest.

From a sales angle, the 3D TV sets really aren't moving, at all. Best Buy's share price got hammered yesterday after people delved into their financials; VERY few are springing for 3D TVs.

Well, most big companies don't even pay the headline corporate tax rate; they usually use loopholes, deductions and local tax savings.

Meh, they may as well just give it away for free.

No, see, I actually live inside the local public library. I use a copy of Great Expectations for my pillow.

I actually stopped using Netflix, though it was before the price hike, and I reduced my cable package offering.

AT&T is slowly revealing its card hand: it was never an argument for spectrum, and it's apparently all about eliminating a low cost price competitor from the marketplace.

Because it's profitable?

Well, no, not for $900, but who cares about that?

What's even more annoying is that most new movie trailers, for thrillers or action films, are using a knock-off Inception trailer score.

And yet, it's still unlike a Macbook in the key screen resolution area.

Generally, I'd agree, but I'm not *totally* Ayn Rand-ian. Ya' know, I like clean water, sanitary food, pharmaceuticals that won't put me into a coma and such.

(Shrugs) Personally, I prefer not to be raped by my telecom providers, but hey, if you enjoy handing over your wallet to a carrier once a month, more power to you.

I'd say that less choice and higher prices are plenty enough reason.

So you do concede that the merger is a bad thing and anti-competitive?

"some marketplaces generally tend toward's natural monopolies"

Oh, granted. I never implied that Sprint was a marketplace domino or something.

It's not really the unions, so much as, yes, cost of living.

It is much more consumer friendly for Sprint to acquire T-Mobile.

"Some customers"= all of T-Mobile's current customers, forced to pay AT&T's new higher rates, if the merger went through.